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By laavid on
Hi
One of my clients website was created using Drupal 7 and now they want to make some changes to the home page.
Just to change a few colors and images.
I am new to drupal and wondering how I can make the changes
I have the drupal admin panel username and password and also the entire website root folder in my local machine
Please help
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Welcome to Drupal!
As Drupal sites are HIGHLY customizable it's near impossible for us to tell you exactly where to go to make any of your updates. I would suggest reading up on Drupal in general as a start: https://www.drupal.org/documentation/the-essentials-7
Your website theme will be in the /sites/all/themes folder (you can find the theme in use in the Drupal UI under /admin/appearance). Within the theme folder you may have a templates folder, which would hold your various page template's (the homepage is page--front.tpl.php). That's where the CSS is is located as well.
Now your homepage could be build in views, blocks, paragraphs, panels, custom template, etc. This is why it makes it extremely difficult for us to offer specific information on where to edit.
Modify using text editor
Hi
Thank you for the reply.
Since I have the entire website file , can I open it in notepad or word pad and make modification to the coding and CSS . And then upload the file to hosting server using FTP ???
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If the homepage is built with a template, then yes you can make some html updates in there. If it utilizes panels or views, that'll most likely be through the Drupal UI.